we have borrowed the craziest bike from scott uk this is a patron e-ride i've never
ridden an e-mountain bike before and i've never ridden a bike with more than 120 ml of travel
and this has got 160 so is this dangerous tony proper we're going to hit the trails
now and see what happens i'm going to find where the turbo mode is and make tony hurt
why are you going so slow
this is ridiculous this isn't even on the highest setting tony's doing a bit of a kom
uh i'm not pacing him i'm just filming him alongside there's the whole first
section of these trails you've been meaning to have a crack out for a while
but well max effort not much match for this bike this is like being on a motorbike
ridiculous although i am still working like it is cycling it's just cycling if you were like
no it's armstrong this is the patron tuned it's full carbon sits sort of in between your enduro
rider and your trail rider got 160 mil of travel front and rear with full integration meaning the
shock is hidden the range is absolutely massive on this bike because it has a 750 watt battery which
is tucked inside the snugly inside the carbon fiber frame the power is delivered via the bosch
performance cx motor which has 85 newton meters of torque which is quite a lot the
bosch performance cx motor will deliver up to 340 percent assistance so yeah it should feel
like quite naughty on the trails so if i'm doing 200 watts the resultant wattage will be i'm not as
fast as peter hawkins the mathematician he's so clever he wouldn't be able to work out what 340
like 200 where's the question going this is going downhill rapidly just like the tune e
right so good
tony's still absolutely rapid on the downhills faster than me even with the
electric motor helping me out i've got it on a mountain bike setting which is not the highest
but it definitely still wants to push you as soon as you put the pedals down if you're uh
on a berm it really does kick so this is going to take a bit of getting used to still
in accordance with the law over 24 k's an hour it cuts out as well the bike can be run without
the head unit attached so you just link it to an app you don't need the head unit to use it
there's a bunch of different power settings on here as well you can control those while you're
riding yeah the control so it's linked to the control unit so you have starting with your eco
then you have your tour plus and you have emtb and then the all-important turbo let's be honest
that's all anyone's interested in if you ride an e-bike you want to ride it in turbo but then you
rapidly realize it's probably a little bit too much power on the trail almost better off in the
emtb mode or one of the lesser settings so the power delivery is a little bit more predictable
took a minute off a minute new kom hopefully if as long as garmin's recognized if you were flying
absolutely how was that yeah it's very fun yeah hi even though he was a bit out of breath on the
uphill though yeah yeah is it what if you want to ride hard that's what i've heard i've heard
it's like feel guardable like e-bikes being like easy just end up like it's the same hardness you
just go really fast ah yeah yeah so the ups are now fun as well as the downs are fun yeah so it's
double the fun because you've got so much more speed on the ups you just roll over more stuff
as well yeah so the lines you're taking up here it's completely just straight down the
middle and it's fine right big smooth trail coming up let's see how this bike performs
wow in a bad way that felt the slowest i've ever ridden that there's no way that was the slowest
that was mega i was absolutely classy with jumping things that
you wouldn't normally jump i think the bike just feels so stable there's
a few jumps there where i thought oh and you just like launched them and
you were airborne i was like what is he doing where's this ski where's these skills come from
oh it's all inside this bike magic inside the frame there you have it you can buy speed it's
a wireless charge point for your mountain bike uh hamsley's invested in us at the top of the trail
it's running on a sram xor groupset 12 speed uh eagle group set mechanical
four pod brakes with huge 203 millimeter rotors it is an e-bike it is a little bit heavier than well
it's not even a little bit heavier it's heavier than your normal bike fox suspension so we've got
the fox 38 up front a very nice kashima coated one giving it a lovely plush slick fail drop post same
again rolling on that sweet kashima coating the beauty of this bike is that the shop is integrated
into the frame inside here really easy to work on a lot of people think with integration it
just comes with a whole load of like complexities it's not it really is quite simple beauty of it
is though it keeps all the muck out of the way and it's all covered and looks quite neat which
also frees up all this space as well and then you can have like a full-size water bottle fitted the
motor itself has been rotated 47 degrees so sits lower into the frame given the right like the ride
quality should be more stable more planted and that's that's the whole reason why we've
moved that motor into that position and then finally running tubeless is the maxis dissector
2.6 and it is a 29er so the retail on this bike is 8599 but obviously this is the pinnacle of
the range it's the tuned so this is like the very top of the range there is lower models it
does also come in an aluminium version so there is different price points all the way down well
worth checking out you're just treating me today giving you the good stuff so you get addicted
what's that noise flat tire man quite flat very flattering do you think i would have
learned to uh bring a pump with me yeah this happened the other day
and well i'm not on my bike so it hasn't got my pump on it have you got a pump i haven't
i've took it off for cross-country racing because it's light and i was doing that calm
this morning wasn't that strawberry we stripped everything off i even emptied my water bottle
full light well this would be a nice ride back for me see you later bye
ride complete 53 battery left that's mad isn't it the the percentage dropped quite quickly on
the first what three or four mile this is what we've got full full gas i was on the pedals the
whole time because i was going that hard you were going so hard and i definitely think you were
quicker on that and so it would be interesting to get you on a 160 mil like 160 mil enduro bike so
now i want an e-bike as a very cool bit of kit and um it was an honor to try it out it's actually
interesting it goes to show how many situations you can make much easier for yourself by just
putting the power down so when you're riding uphill on a cross-country bike obviously you're
trying a lot harder because you haven't got an electric motor assisting you but the things that
technical are technical because you're riding them slow and you're climbing whereas this bike
you can just power straight through and ride over things so it shows you the importance of
you know there are certain places where just putting out power will get you over obstacles
and uh i think it's just a great learning tool and i had a big smile on my face pretty much the whole
way around it's almost just me laughing at you me suffering like a dog yeah so if you enjoyed this
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